ca

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ca"

English

Alternative forms

Adverb

ca (not comparable)

  1. Abbreviation of circa.
    • 2004 During glacial times, a stretch of level plain joined Australia with New Guinea and enabled humans to walk into Australia. That plain flooded to form the Gulf of Carpentaria, between ca 12,000 and 10,000 ybp. - Wikipedia article on Deluge (mythology)

Translations

Anagrams

Albanian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From the sequence of article sa + të[1].

Pronoun

ca

  1. some

References

  1. ↑ Orel, Vladimir (2000) A Concise Historical Grammar of the Albanian Language, Leiden: Brill, pages 44-45

Catalan

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Latin canis, canem, from Proto-Italic *kō (accusative *kwanem), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱwṓ (accusative *ḱwónm̥).

Noun

ca m (plural cans)

  1. dog
Usage notes
  • This term is used in Catalonia or Valencia only in stock phrases, with gos (feminine gossa) being the term generally used for a dog.
  • In the Balearics, ca has retained its use as the primary word for a dog. However, instead of a feminine of ca, *cana, being used for a female dog, in the Balearics, cussa, the feminine of cus (“little dog”) is used.
  • Note also that those breeds of dogs that originated in the Balearics use ca and not gos to form name of the breed.
Synonyms
Hyponyms
  • (Balearics) cus m (“little dog”), (Balearics) cussa f (“female dog”)
  • gos m (“male dog”), gossa f (“female dog”)
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Noun

ca f (plural cas)

  1. The letter K (lowercase k).
Usage notes
  • The letter K is not used in native Catalan words and thus its presence in a word is a fairly reliable indicator of a recent import.

Etymology 3

Apocopated form of casa. Compare French chez, Spanish ca, Italian ca'.

Particle

ca

  1. the house (of)
    Anem a ca la Maria. ― We are going to Maria’s house.
    Aquell casalot és cal Ramon. ― That mansion is Ramon’s house.
    Parlem català a ca nostra. ― We speak Catalan at our house.
Usage notes
  • When followed by one of the articles el, els, en, and es, the word ca contracts with them into cal, cals, can, and cas, respectively.
Derived terms

Classical Nahuatl

Particle

ca

  1. Used to mark the word(s) that it modifies as an affirmative predicate.

French

Preposition

ca

  1. Abbreviation of circa.

Further reading

Galician

Conjunction

ca

  1. than
    As miñas irmás son máis altas ca min.
    My sisters are taller than I am.

Derived terms

Ido

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tsa/

Determiner

ca (plural ci)

  1. Alternative form of ica

Italian

Abbreviation

ca

  1. circa

See also

Anagrams

Malay

Noun

ca (Jawi spelling چا‎)

  1. tea

Synonyms

Mandarin

Romanization

ca

  1. Nonstandard spelling of cā.
  2. Nonstandard spelling of cǎ.
  3. Nonstandard spelling of cà.

Usage notes

  • English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

Nahuatl

Verb

ca

  1. to be in a location

Usage notes

Ca is an irregular verb; its plural form is cate.

Particle

ca

Used in affirmative statements.

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Neapolitan

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ka/

Adverb

ca

  1. what

Conjunction

ca

  1. than (comparison beetween adjectives only)

Pronoun

ca

  1. that
  2. who
  3. which

Pali

Alternative forms

Particle

ca

  1. and (copulative particle)

Portuguese

Contraction

ca

  1. (colloquial) Contraction of com a.

Adverb

ca (not comparable)

  1. Obsolete spelling of cá

Romanian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ka/
  • Rhymes: -a

Etymology 1

From Latin quam. The expression ca și may derive from Latin quasi.

Adverb

ca

  1. than
    Am o carte mai bună ca aceasta. ― I have a better book than this one.
  2. as
    Filmul este tot așa de interesant ca romanul. ― The movie is as interesting as the novel is.
Synonyms

Etymology 2

From Latin quia.

Conjunction

ca

  1. (obsolete) because
  2. (followed by să) in order to
Synonyms

Romansch

Alternative forms

  • (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan) che
  • (Surmiran) tgi
  • (Puter) cu
  • (Vallader) co

Etymology

From Latin quam or quod.

Conjunction

ca

  1. (Sutsilvan) than

Scots

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kaː/, IPA(key): /kɑː/

Verb

ca (third-person singular present cas, present participle cain, past ca'd, past participle ca'd)

  1. call
  2. summon
  3. drive something
  4. go on, proceed
  5. knock or push

Derived terms

Contraction

ca

  1. (some Scots dialects) can't
    That ca be him!
    That can't be him!

See also

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ka/
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    • Homophone: ka

Etymology 1

From ¡quia!.

Interjection

ca

  1. (Spain) Denotes incredulity or negation; oh no!
Synonyms

Etymology 2

From Latin quia.

Conjunction

ca

  1. (obsolete) because

Etymology 3

Apocope of casa.

Noun

ca f (plural cas)

  1. (colloquial) house

Further reading

Swedish

Abbreviation

ca

  1. circa; Abbreviation of cirka. Alternative form of c:a

Tarantino

Pronoun

ca (relative)

  1. to whom
  2. to which

Adjective

ca

  1. what

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Noun

ca

  1. mug (about 1/4 liter)

Etymology 2

Sino-Vietnamese word from 歌 (“song”).

Verb

ca

  1. to sing
  2. (colloquial) to praise
Synonyms
Derived terms
  • ca hát, ca từ, ca nhạc, ca ngợi, ngợi ca

Etymology 3

Borrowed from French cas.

Noun

ca

  1. (medicine) case
    Ca này nặng đấy!
    This case is a serious one!
  2. shift (change of workers)
    tan ca ― to finish one's shift
Derived terms

See also

Etymology 4

Borrowed from French ka.

Noun

ca

  1. The name of the Latin-script letter K/k.

Welsh

Alternative forms

  • (first-person singular future): caf (literary)
  • (second-person singular imperative): cei, cymer (colloquial)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kaː/

Verb

ca

  1. inflection of cael:
    1. (colloquial) first-person singular future
    2. (literary) second-person singular imperative

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal aspirate
ca ga ngha cha
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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